The Silent Scream

It is outrageous that a doctor has lent himself to such piece of propaganda, thus missing one of his duties as a health worker, which is to provide accurate information without biases in a sensitive matter, to the population or at least the part of the population who chooses to see or is forced to watch this movie.

This is an eye opener to the most barbaric practice of killing children in modern times. What a sad society we are to cheer the death of our children. Sad that we see abortion as healthcare and not as for what it is, murder! Here are some quotes by Mother Teresa:

"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters". And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign." (Mother Theresa -- "Notable and Quotable," Wall Street Journal, 2/25/94, p. A14)

"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "

This short film, is everything wrong with extreme pro-life propaganda. It puts forth standard scare tactics and misapplies scientific fact (and often enough mis-interprets if not outright lies about scientific fact) all in the name of "protecting the unborn"

I could spend a lot of time talking about the medical inaccuracies, or the deliberate falsehoods or the misleading editing in this film, but it would probably be simpler to advise people who wish to watch this film to look it up themselves, it's not hard to find technical criticisms of this film in a quick google search.

This is a film that likely is only popular with very poorly educated Pro-life extremists, as it is not factually accurate, nuanced, or even honest about the message it portrays.

Which is a problem, because the current body of research on the opinions of US citizens in regards to abortion, indicates that most of us have nuanced opinions on the matter of abortion, and are entirely willing to see the complexities and "shades of grey" on this very serious, very heart-rending issue.

If you are looking for a film that advances the discussion on abortion in a helpful manner, look elsewhere

I was pro-infanticide through high school school until I saw this video at my church in 1984. From that date to this I have been a staunch pro-lifer. If more people would take the time to watch this to watch this, there would be much less debate about the idea of whether it is a human life being ended.

An abortionist films an abortion on an 11 week old baby in the womb. The child tries to escape the suction tube by moving away from it. At the last moment as the baby is sucked apart, The child's mouth forms a scream. This documentary shows the truth that abortion is MURDER. This short documentary should be seen by every American. It is shocking and heartbreaking. After watching this, anyone with an ounce of compassion and common sense, will definitely be anti-abortion. The doctor stopped being an abortionist after watching this documentary. The film was current in 1984. Since that time, millions of babies have been sucked out of their mother's womb in a hideous procedure.

Another reviewer accuses low information, , uneducated people of using this documentary as an excuse to support their position on abortion. However, that assumption has been debunked even by the United States Supreme Court ruling concerning Roe versus Wade. That decision returned the decision of abortion back to each individual state. Many Americans see this as murder. There are those who support delivering full term babies and leaving them to die at the discretion of the mother. However, the tide has turned on abortion in America. Arizona recently approved changing the name of a baby in utero from fetus to baby.